prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
There it will begin tests that will culminate in flights that could do for space colonization what the prairie schooner and the railroads did for the settling of America.
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Good shot: Mary, her hair disarrayed by the wind, snuggling up to John for a kiss, in the front seat of a prairie schooner.
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When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that.
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Also, the prairie schooner had a seat where the driver, or at least his family, could ride during the seemingly endless days of the journey.
From Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 by Berkebile, Donald H.
